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988789

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Confederation of School Trusts: Speeches
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the speech entitled Damian Hinds speech at Confederation of School Trusts conference, published by his Department on 11 October 2018, for what reasons parts of that speech have been redacted on the gov.uk website; and who took the decision to redact sections of that speech.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	180288
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>In line with the Government Communications Service propriety guidance, published by the Cabinet Office and based on the Civil Service Code, the Department for Education redacted political content from the version published on GOV.UK. The guidance is available at:</p><p><a href="https://gcs.civilservice.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Government-Communication-Propriety-Guidance-Feb-16-1.pdf" target="_blank">https://gcs.civilservice.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Government-Communication-Propriety-Guidance-Feb-16-1.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The speech by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is available on GOV.UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/damian-hinds-speech-at-confederation-of-school-trusts-conference" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/damian-hinds-speech-at-confederation-of-school-trusts-conference</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/10/2018 15:10:53 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

985688

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adoption
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he is taking steps to protect prospective adoptive parents from being barred because of conscientious objection to gender reassignment and gender recognition for under-18s; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	178212
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The procedures for the recruitment and assessment of adopters are outlined in the Adoption Statutory Guidance, available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adoption-statutory-guidance-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adoption-statutory-guidance-2013</a>.</p><p>Adoption agencies must not refuse to accept a registration of interest from prospective adopters on the grounds of, for example, that individual’s ethnicity, age, health, sexual orientation, religious beliefs or because they do not share the same ethnicity, culture or religious beliefs as the children waiting for an adoptive family.</p><p>There are clear processes for prospective adopters to follow, if they wish to contest an adoption agency’s decision, including through the agency’s local complaints process or via the Independent Review Mechanism, depending on the stage of the process they had reached.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 16/10/2018 16:51:22 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

985761

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Speech and Language Disorders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to undertake a cost benefit analysis of not identifying and supporting children and young people’s speech, language and communication needs and the interventions required for children and young people with those needs.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea West
	tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
	uin	178217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The government fully recognises that children and young people with speech, communication and language needs must get the support they require. The Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Code of Practice requires that local authorities, educational institutions and relevant others must appropriately identify those needs and put in place support to meet them.</p><p>While the department has no current plans to undertake this specific analysis in developing policy to support such children and young people, the government takes account of available research and advice - for example, the ‘Bercow, Ten Years On’ report published in March this year, to which we will be responding shortly. I will also meet the All Party Parliamentary Group on Speech and Language Difficulties later this month.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 16/10/2018 16:53:28 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

985764

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Speech and Language Disorders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to include communication and language as a focus of the next round of Pupil Premium Awards.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea West
	tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
	uin	178219
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The Pupil Premium Awards recognise excellent practice by schools in raising the attainment of disadvantaged pupils through use of pupil premium funding.</p><p>Head teachers have discretion over how they spend the pupil premium as they are best placed to identify interventions that meet the needs of their pupils – which can include speech, language and communication barriers.</p><p>We will be responding to this and the other recommendations of the 'Bercow: 10 Years On' report, shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 16/10/2018 16:47:04 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

988777

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to improve outcomes for children with special educational needs.
	tabling member constituency	Mansfield
	tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
	uin	180302
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) reforms introduced by the Children and Families Act (2014) were the biggest in a generation. Since then, we have given £391 million to local areas to support implementation of the new duties under the act and a great deal of progress has been made with 98% of statements transferred to education, health and care (EHC) plans, where appropriate, by April 2018.</p><p>We want to ensure that families are able to participate meaningfully in developing local services and have a contract worth £20 million with the Council for Disabled Children (CDC) and Contact, to improve local information, advice and support and provide a national helpline; and a contract worth £3.8 million with Contact, in partnership with KIDS and the CDC, to promote and develop strategic participation by young people and parent carers.</p><p>We have in place a new contract with the Whole School SEND Consortium to embed SEND within approaches to school improvement in order to equip the workforce to deliver high quality teaching across all types of special educational needs. The programme of work includes building a community of practice with the involvement of 10,000 schools by 2020 and 15,000 schools by 2022, across the eight regional schools commissioners’ regions.</p><p>We are establishing a SEND Commissioning Board for children and young people with high needs to help support local authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups to improve planning and commissioning of SEND provision.</p><p>We have published a roadmap for reforming alternative provision that will see us focus on sharing best practice across the sector and launched a £4 million innovation fund. We have also announced an externally led review of school exclusions, carried out by former children’s minister Edward Timpson CBE, looking into why certain groups of pupils – including those with SEND – are more likely to be excluded than others, and launched a review into the outcomes of and support for children in need.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, we have asked Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission to design a programme of further local area SEND inspections to follow the current round and to develop an approach for further inspection or monitoring of those areas required to produce a written statement of action. The inspections consider how effectively local areas identify, meet the needs of and improve the outcomes of children and young people with SEND. They have proved a catalyst for supporting local areas to improve their services and deliver better outcomes for children and young people.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/10/2018 12:29:42 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

988716

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding available to local authorities for specialist education services for deaf children.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
	uin	180286
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>We want children with special educational needs and disabilities to be able to reach their full potential.</p><p>Nationally, high needs funding has risen by £1 billion since 2013-14, to just under £6 billion in 2018-19. Allocations for individual local authorities can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019</a>.</p><p>However, we recognise that costs have increased which is why we are providing extensive support to schools to deliver the best value possible with available resources. This includes a high needs benchmarking tool to allow local authorities to compare their spending in this area.</p><p>We are monitoring the impact of our national funding formula on high needs and are keeping the overall level of funding under review.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/10/2018 12:18:20 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

987971

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Primary Education: Nurseries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of primary schools which have opened since September 2017 (a) include a nursery and (b) do not include a nursery.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	179289
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>Since September 2017, 60% of the mainstream and special free schools that have opened currently have, or have plans for, nursery provision. Since September 2017, 65% of mainstream and special primary schools approved, currently have plans for nursery provision.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this, four voluntary-aided (VA) primary schools have opened, one of these includes nursery provision. Some, or all of the VA schools, may be as result of local reconfiguration of schools in an area. As local authorities are responsible for approving VA schools, we do not hold information on the number of VA schools approved in this period.</p><p> </p><p>These figures relate to schools that have exclusively primary-aged pupils.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 179290 question first answered 19/10/2018 13:37:52 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 79444 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

987972

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Primary Education: Nurseries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of new primary schools that have been approved since September 2017 (a) include plans a nursery and (b) do not include plans for a nursery.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	179290
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>Since September 2017, 60% of the mainstream and special free schools that have opened currently have, or have plans for, nursery provision. Since September 2017, 65% of mainstream and special primary schools approved, currently have plans for nursery provision.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this, four voluntary-aided (VA) primary schools have opened, one of these includes nursery provision. Some, or all of the VA schools, may be as result of local reconfiguration of schools in an area. As local authorities are responsible for approving VA schools, we do not hold information on the number of VA schools approved in this period.</p><p> </p><p>These figures relate to schools that have exclusively primary-aged pupils.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 179289 question first answered 19/10/2018 13:37:52 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 79508 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

987969

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Day Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of eligible disabled children are accessing 30 hours of free childcare.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	179288
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 18/10/2018 13:07:24 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

987976

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Closures
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the (a) number of nursery closures and (b) the length of time those nurseries were in business in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	179291
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>This is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman. I have asked her to write to the hon. Member and a copy of her reply will be placed in the libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 18/10/2018 13:49:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin